“Parents will do anything for their kids, right?” Vanessa said, going on to share her experience with a High School Musical fan’s parent. “So I remember, one time in particular, I was running to my gate and the airport, literally running, and this woman was like, ‘Oh my God, my daughter loves you!’ And I was like, ‘Thank you!’”

“And she’s like, ‘I need a picture!’” Vanessa continued. “And I was like, ‘I really can’t right now, I’m trying to get to my gate.’ And she’s like, ‘Come on! You owe this to me!’ And I was like, ‘I don’t owe you anything.’ And then she goes, ‘You’re a b–ch!’ I was like, ‘I’m sorry?’”

That same day, Vanessa and boyfriend Austin Butler attended the Haute Living and Jaquet Droz Honoring of Vanessa Hudgens held at A.O.C. in Los Angeles.

The 30-year-old actress explained that while filming, she had an “insane connection” with Jennifer, who wanted to help her on and off set.

“We’d be between sets, and we’d just talk. I’d tell her about my career and where I think I’m lacking, and she’d tell me what she thinks the right steps are to get to where I want to be,” Vanessa told Haute Living.

She added, “She told me, ‘If you aren’t happy in a certain aspect of your career, look at who is doing what you want to be doing, and mimic it. [Jennifer] was great at being like, ‘In order to do that, you’ve got to do this,’ and she spells it out in the most simplistic way possible. And I’d be like, ‘Oh yeah, of course, I’ll do that, and I’m going to conquer the world just like you!’”

“At 25, I felt like I had life figured out,” she said. “Like, ‘I’ve got this, I’m great at life; I understand how to do it.’ And then, at 27, I woke up on my birthday and felt like I had no idea who I was, what I stood for, what I was doing with my life. I felt kind of lost. I realized, ‘I am not a child anymore. I am not a teen. I am fully an adult, and there are so many responsibilities that come with that.’ I felt extremely overwhelmed.”

“My 20s were such a roller coaster,” she continued. “I had so many high moments, but I lost my dad. My [boyfriend of seven years, actor Austin Butler] also lost his mom. We dealt with a lot of death.”

Vanessa sadly lost her father to cancer in 2016, a day before one of her biggest career moments – performing in Fox’s Grease Live.

“I felt like [the death of my father] really pushed me to expand and grow as a person, whether I liked it or not,” she shared. “I [now] feel like those moments are really great to have because they force you to reassess your life, what you believe in, what you stand for, who you want to be.”

“The last year of my 20s was very informative as to the woman I am becoming,” she added. “I feel very empowered and very scared because I know there are big things ahead of me. [On the flip side], I feel like I’m grounded, I’ve gotten rid of my baggage, so to speak, and have made way for myself to go into my 30s just a bit more streamlined, leading with love and light.”

Based on upon the Dark Horse graphic novel “Polar: Came from the Cold” by Victor Santos, the movie centers on the world’s top assassin, Duncan Vizla, aka The Black Kaiser (Mads Mikkelsen), who is settling into retirement when his former employer marks him as a liability to the firm.

Against his will, he finds himself back in the game going head to head with an army of younger, faster, ruthless killers who will stop at nothing to have him silenced.